Trump says he'll give Americans the 'best healthcare ever' -- but only if Republicans win in 2020

President Donald Trump appears to be holding a healthcare plan hostage unless Americans vote for Republicans in 2020.

In a Fox News interview Sunday with Steve Hilton, Trump said he's developing a plan that will be far better than the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare). But that bill will never become law in the next two years because he wants Republicans to be elected first.

He began by saying that the 80 million Americans who have health care through their employer are "happy" and Democrats want to take it away. As a fact-check, the "Medicare for All" plan would give free health care to people instead of their employer paying for their health insurance.

"What I want to do, Obamacare is a disaster," Trump said. "I got rid of the individual mandate, which was the worst part of Obamacare. Frankly, except for the one gentleman who decided after campaigning for eight years to repeal and replace at 2:00 A.M., he walked out on the on the floor and went thumbs, we would have healthcare repealed and replaced, but I’m doing it a different way."

As another fact-check, the bill Republicans put up was a repeal without a replacement. It's unclear if McCain voted against it for that reason, but many Republicans suggest it was the major problem with the GOP proposal.

"We get rid of the individual mandate as part of the tax cuts and that’s most we are now coming up with a much better plan than Obamacare if we take the House back, keep the Senate, keep the presidency, they will have phenomenal healthcare at a fraction of the cost," Trump pledged.

If Trump was interested in actually fixing health care, he could work with Democrats to develop a law that both parties could pass. Instead, he's hoping to take back both chambers of Congress so he can pass the bill he wants without bipartisan agreement.

Watch the interview with Trump below: